Category: Media Archive

  • Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th-Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa New York University Press July 2013 254 pages 4 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780814762646 Paper ISBN: 9781479897322 Yuichiro Onishi, Assistant Professor of African American & African Studies and Asian American Studies University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Transpacific Antiracism introduces the dynamic process out of which…

  • Indian Enough for Dartmouth? Inside Higher Ed 2015-09-17 Scott Jaschik, Editor Dartmouth College this month appointed Susan Taffe Reed as director of its Native American Program. In a news release, the college noted Taffe Reed’s academic background (a Cornell University Ph.D. and postdocs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Bowdoin College),…

  • How a Black Man From Missouri Transformed Himself Into the Indian Liberace The New Republic 2015-09-12 Liesl Bradner Photo: John Turner Before Liberace, there was Korla Pandit. He was a pianist from New Delhi, India, and dazzled national audiences in the 1950s with his unique keyboard skills and exotic compositions on the Hammond B3 organ.…

  • Mixed Emotions About My Mixed Heritage Just Analise 2015-09-02 Analise Kandasammy When you truly love yourself you are released from the chains of trying to be someone you are not. How many times have we heard – if you can’t love yourself, you can’t truly love anyone else? How many times have we heard we…

  • Puerto Rico is often depicted as a “racial democracy” in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. In “Remixing Reggaetón,” Petra R. Rivera-Rideau shows how reggaetón musicians critique racial democracy’s privileging of whiteness and concealment of racism by expressing identities that center blackness and African diasporic belonging.

  • Races, Ethnicities, and Cultures Mix More Freely Than Elsewhere in the U.S., But There Are Limits to the Aloha Spirit

  • Biases in the Perception of Barack Obama’s Skin Tone Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Volume 14, Issue 1, December 2014 pages 137–161 DOI: 10.1111/asap.12061 Markus Kemmelmeier, Professor of Sociology University of Nevada, Reno H. Lyssette Chavez University of Nevada, Reno White Americans higher in prejudice were less likely to vote for Barack Obama…

  • Do Children See in Black and White? Children’s and Adults’ Categorizations of Multiracial Individuals Child Development Published Online: 2015-08-28 DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12410 Steven O. Roberts Department of Psychology University of Michigan Susan A. Gelman, Heinz Werner Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Linguistics University of Michgan Categorizations of multiracial individuals provide insight into the development of…

  • Racist Hysteria to Pragmatic Rapprochement? The German Debate about Rhenish ‘Occupation Children’, 1920–30 Contemporary European History Volume 22, Issue 2, May 2013 pages 155-180 DOI: 10.1017/S0960777313000039 Julia Roos, Associate Professor of History Indiana University, Bloomington This essay revisits 1920s German debates over the illegitimate children of the Rhineland occupation to examine hitherto neglected fluctuations in…

  • Identity and Form California Law Review Volume 103, Number 4 (August 2015) pages 747-838 Jessica A. Clarke, Associate Professor of Law University of Minnesota Recent controversies over identity claims have prompted questions about who should qualify for affirmative action, who counts as family, who is a man or a woman, and who is entitled to…